Hogan Lovells has hired restructuring partner Jonathan Leitch in Hong Kong from DLA Piper.

Leitch specialises in restructuring and insolvency, including debt restructuring and refinancing, as well as distressed mergers and acquisitions and cross-border restructuring, of companies in the retail, property, shipping and manufacturing sectors.

He practised at DLA Piper his entire legal career before leaving to join Hogan Lovells. Leitch joined DLA Piper in 1998 after law school and made partner in London in 2008, before relocating to Hong Kong in 2012. In 2003, he seconded for more than a year at Royal Bank of Scotland's global banking and markets division.